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ISBN: | 9789027298249 9027298246 9781588110695 1588110699 9789027227645 9027227640 1588110699 9027227640
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | This book reports a research program into one of the most controversial questions in the syntax -- processing interface: The behavior of the parser at gap positions. While the work done is largely experimental, the results are analyzed both for their relevance to sentence processing and for their implications for competing syntactic frameworks. In particular the differing predictions of PPT and HPSG for structures with dislocated constituents are tested for their empirical adequacy. The author addresses a broad range of questions about gap processing and uses a broad range of methodologies to c.
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Other form: | Print version: Featherston, Sam. Empty categories in sentence processing. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2001
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